Tag Archives: recycling

A roadmap for more effective packaging recycling in the US

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

Recognizing the limitations of the US waste management system, where only about one third of all municipal solid waste is recovered by recycling or composting, GreenBlue® released a report yesterday that assesses a variety of material-recovery systems around the world … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Posts of 2011: Economics, recycling, package design, labeling, etc.

Posted on December 18, 2011 by

In the course of reviewing the 65 posts I wrote this year, I came across a pretty astonishing statistic: 17,113 readers came to this site and another 9,045 came to my Blog on the Converting Quarterly Website in 2011. The … Continue reading →

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Threats & opportunities for the global label market

Posted on November 18, 2011 by

In a series of wide-ranging presentations at the 2011 AWA DecTec Narrow Web Label & Product Decoration Printing and Imaging conference held earlier this week in Chicago, industry experts from up and down the supply chain addressed numerous threats and … Continue reading →

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